Not sure where to mount rod brackets in my bay window
I want to mount a rod in the recess of my bay window so I can hang some plants, but I can't figure out how the studs/joists are laid out. All I found with both a normal stud finder and a stud buddy was the 1.5-2 inches at the very edges of the ceiling and the walls (highlighted in the picture). I feel like I shouldn't be mounting anything that close to the edge, right? Also, I'm a little confused because the whole length seems to be magnetic, not just individual spots where the screws would be like in a normal stud/joist. Could that mean it's actually a steel lintel/bressummer beam/whatever that would be called in the ceiling? It seems to be the same case on the wall right above the window recess and the walls inside the recess. Am I misreading this? What's best approach to hang plants here? https://preview.redd.it/vqy0wv6fnqne1.png?width=3024&format=png&auto=webp&s=1e95cbbd431ba138d21a0b0855166d6f1f17bad0 submitted by /u/StraightRelative [link] [comments]
| | I want to mount a rod in the recess of my bay window so I can hang some plants, but I can't figure out how the studs/joists are laid out. All I found with both a normal stud finder and a stud buddy was the 1.5-2 inches at the very edges of the ceiling and the walls (highlighted in the picture). I feel like I shouldn't be mounting anything that close to the edge, right? Also, I'm a little confused because the whole length seems to be magnetic, not just individual spots where the screws would be like in a normal stud/joist. Could that mean it's actually a steel lintel/bressummer beam/whatever that would be called in the ceiling? It seems to be the same case on the wall right above the window recess and the walls inside the recess. Am I misreading this? What's best approach to hang plants here? [link] [comments] |
